Authors: J. D. Landis
Longing (75 page)
The idea that Brahms might have fathered Felix Schumann was not merely the idle speculation of Robert Schumann's damaged imagination as he lay in bed in Endenich. His grandson Alfred Schumann wrote a little book called
Johannes Brahms: The Father of Felix Schumann
. Most copies were burned by the Nazis because such a notion as the book asserted was deemed to dishonor all Germans.
Joseph Joachim married the contralto Ursi Schneeweiss in 1863. Their first child they named Johannes. Their second, Clara.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The line of verse in the book's dedication is from “The Seventh Elegy” in
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell, copyright © 1982 by Stephen Mitchell.
Copyright © 2000 by J. D. Landis
ISBN: 978-1-5040-0739-9
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